In This Mountain by Jan Karon

Author:Jan Karon
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2002-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Hessie Mayhew dodged into the handkerchief garden between the Collar Button and the Sweet Stuff Bakery and stood, frozen, by a bed of dahlias, hoping Father Tim would not spot her as he passed.

She clutched a brass vase chock-full of multiflora roses that she’d just cut from her arbor and was taking to the office building next door to Sweet Stuff. It was a forty-dollar arrangement and worth every dime, but she suddenly felt like a common criminal. To think of all he’d been through, and now, at last, he was out and about, no doubt to pay tribute to those who’d sent food and flowers through the long weeks, while the absence of a single, solitary word from Hessie Mayhew pained him like a sore and festering thumb….

“Good morning, Hessie!”

She turned, humiliated, and looked into his beaming face.

“It’s great to see you, Hessie! How are you?”

Unthinking, she hastily closed the distance between them and thrust the vase of roses into his hands.

“There!” she blurted, sloshing water onto his shirtsleeve. Appalled at her grossly inept presentation, she turned and fled along the sidewalk.

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